Go upstate and get your head together/ Thunderbird is the word and you're light as a feather

I'm just back at my desk after a very fab long weekend in the country with a friend of a recent vintage who is one of the most effortlessly cool people I've ever met. Today's schedule includes catching up on myriad projects, so in lieu of more thoughtful observations, here are the top 10 things I'm crazy about this week:

• Nasty British slang: "Tara Reid is the ultimate American ______."
• The $4 Hanoi Lychee Martinis at Verlaine during Happy Hour (until 10pm)
• John Ashbery's Girls on the Run, a lyrical homage to Darger's Vivian Sisters
• Having a car for just a few days - v.v. refreshing! (the Neon was fine, but next time I am definitely springing for the 300.)
• Buying a brown, shrunken cable-kint cardigan with baby blue accents at Target, and pronouncing it (with a straight face) to have a bit of a Luella/Early Miu Miu  vibe
• Sweet tea with mint in a Mason jar (exquisite enough to warrant a cross-town trek to Daisy May's)
• Tegan and Sara's So Jealous
• Acquiring a pair of Grecian-style Camper sandals that are very Artemis
• The Dan Flavin Institute; I wanted to go yesterday while I still had wheels, but it was closed
• The New York Botanical Garden; next on my list of local pleasures to experience (Other gardens in other places that I have enjoyed visiting and would recommend: Le Jardin des Plantes, The Polly Hill Arboretum, Hillwood Museum Gardens, San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers)

Comments

[the Happy Booker]

Flavin rules. Sorry you weren't able to go. Let's plan a trip in the fall? I didn't know about the institute and I am now adding it to my list of things to do when visiting parents. Have you been to Storm King Art Center? Definitely worth a rental car. Wendi

[the Happy Booker]

Flavin rules. Sorry you weren't able to go. Let's plan a trip in the fall? I didn't know about the institute and I am now adding it to my list of things to do when visiting parents. Have you been to Storm King Art Center? Definitely worth a rental car. Wendi